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Lead Article – R&P Journal, December 2011

The Bible in the Political Rhetoric of the American Founding

Daniel L. Dreisbach - American University

Abstract

The American founders frequently alluded to and quoted from the Bible in their political rhetoric. This fact alone reveals little about how and for what purposes the founding generation used the Bible and, more important, how the Bible influenced the political thought of the founding era. Drawing on some of the most familiar political rhetoric of the founding era, this article examines the founders' diverse uses of the Bible in political discourse, ranging from the strictly literary and cultural to the theological, from the stylistic to the substantive. Recognition of these distinct uses is important insofar as it is misleading to read spiritual meaning into purely political or rhetorical uses of the Bible or vice versa.

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Note from the chair – August 29, 2011

Dear all,

I hope you have had a great summer. As you will see below we have a long list of items to discuss in the section meeting during the APSA conference (Thursday, Sept 1 at 6.15-7.15 followed by a reception at 7.30-9.00).

Before listing the agenda items, I encourage each of you to

–renew the section membership

–subscribe your institution to our journal (Politics and Religion)

–volunteer for award committees (please let me know if you want to serve in book, dissertation, or paper award committees).

The agenda:

1 – Politics and Religion has a 2.5-year backlog.

To solve the problem we need more pages (we now have 3 issues per year * 7 articles per issue).

Two options:

a) 4 issues per year * 8 articles per issue = $4 increase in dues

b) 4 issues per year * 7 articles per issue = $2 increase in dues

2 – Journal Editor

As I emailed before, the following is the link to the CVs and Proposals of the three candidates for the journal's editorship:

http://community.apsanet.org/APSANET/APSANET/Resources/ViewDocument/Default.aspx?DocumentKey=2e2720e9-d8cf-4cbe-be7f-184efa6c4d7c

The meeting participants will decide whether to rank the proposals per se, or to mix candidates by constructing new co-editorships, especially for balancing the expertise on American Politics and CP/IR.

3 – Announcements:

Budget Report (Ahmet Kuru)

Journal Report (Ted Jelen)

2011 Program (Stephen Mockabee)

Mentoring (Brian Calfano)

Chair-elect (Iza Hussin)

Book Award (Committee Chair David Campbell)

Co-winners (Elizabet Hurd and Vincent P. Munoz)

Honorable mention (Mira Morgenstern)

Dissertation Award (Committee Chair Tarek Masoud)

Co-winners (Brandon Kendhammer and Samuel Goldman)

Paper Award (Committee Chair Nader Hashemi)

Winner (Lisa Blaydes)

Best,

Ahmet

The purpose of the Religion & Politics Section is to encourage the study of the interrelations between religion and politics, including the politics of religious pluralism; law, religion and governance; faith, practice and political behavior; and the politics of secularism, in the United States as well as in comparative, historical, and global perspective.

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Politics and Religion is an international journal publishing high quality peer-reviewed research on the multifaceted relationship between religion and politics around the world. The scope of published work is intentionally broad and we invite innovative work from all methodological approaches in the major subfields of political science, including international relations, American politics, comparative politics, and political theory, that seeks to improve our understanding of religion’s role in some aspect of world politics. The Editors invite normative and empirical investigations of the public representation of religion, the religious and political institutions that shape religious presence in the public square, and the role of religion in shaping citizenship, broadly considered, as well as pieces that attempt to advance our methodological tools for examining religious influence in political life.

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